The Pomona College Band Past Repertoire

2022–20232021–20222020-20212019-20202018-20192017-2018
2016-20172015-20162014-20152013-2014Spring 2013

2022–23 REPERTOIRE
Fall
Court Festival (1957) – William P. Latham
Heart on Fire (2022) – Viet Cuong
Tight Squeeze (2013) – Alex Shapiro
Faeroe Island Dance (1946) – Percy Grainger
Themes from “Green Bushes” (1921) – Percy Grainger/arr. L. Daehn
Country Song (1906) – Gustav Holst/arr. S. Klein
Marching Song (1906) – Gustav Holst/arr. G. Holst
A Little Tango Music (2007) – Adam Gorb
Black & White Rag (1908) – George Botsford/arr. L. Daehn
The Untitled March (1930) – John Philip Sousa

Spring
 •
A Huntingdon Celebration (2003) – Philip Sparke
 • Sarabande (2022*) – Karl Kohn
 • William Byrd Suite (1923) – Gordon Jacob
 • Three Chanson françaises (1945) – Francis Poulenc/arr. S. Klein
 • Second Suite in F (1911/12) – Gustav Holst
 • Old Churches (2012) – Michael Colgrass
 • The Walking Frog (1919) – Karl L. King
 • The Governor’s March (1948) – Leroy Anderson
        * world premiere


2021–22 REPERTOIRE
Fall
Flourish for Wind Band (1939) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Gambol (2020) – Jack Stamp
Simple Gifts. Four Shaker Songs (2002) – Frank Ticheli
English Folk Song Suite (original version 1923) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Footlifter. March (1929) – Henry Fillmore/ed. R.E. Foster

Spring
 •
Prelude in the Dorian Mode (c 1550) – Antonio de Cabezón/arr. P. Grainger
 • Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, K191 mvt. I (1774)^ – W. A. Mozart/arr. J. E. Garcia
 • Rhosymedre (1920) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. W. Beeler
 • Another Essay (2021)* – Karl Kohn
 • Four Pieces from Album for the Young (1848) – Robert Schumann/arr. S. Klein
 • A Moorside Suite (1928) – Gustav Holst/arr. D. Wright
 • PC Fling (1981) – William F. Russell
 • South (1941) – Bennie Moten and T. Hayes
 • March of the Belgian Parachutists (1945) – Pierre Leemans/ed. J. R. Bourgeois
    ^Becca Blyn HMC ’22, euphonium soloist
    * world premiere


2020–21 Academic Year
 The Band did not rehearse or perform due to COVID-19 pandemic


2019–20 REPERTOIRE
Fall
L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (1872) – Georges Bizet
Lyric Suite (arr. for band 2010) – Gerald Finzi/arr. J. Moss
Melody Shop (1910) – Karl King
The Octatonic March* (2019) – Stephen Klein
Essay* (2019) – Oliver Dubon, PO ’20
Reeding the Scales*^ (2019) – Tom Flaherty
K2!* (2019) – Anika Arvanitis, PO ’20
• Spring Song and Sailors’ Song from Album for the Young, Op. 68 – R. Schumann/arr. S. Klein (2019)
     ^Leslie Schroerlucke, clarinet
     * world premiere

Spring (Concert canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
 • Euphoria
(2001) – John Frantzen
 • Brook Green Suite (1933) – Gustav Holst/arr. J. Curnow
 • Scarlatti for Band, I. Pastorale, K. 446 and II. The Cat Fugue, K.30 – Domenico Scarlatti/arr. S. Klein (2019)
 • American Embers (2017) – James M. Stephenson
 • Four Preludes (1974) – Robert Russell Bennett
 • The Footlifter. March (1929) – Henry Fillmore/ed. R.E. Foster


2018–19 REPERTOIRE
Fall
Galena. Concert March (2005) – Robert Dickow
Kaniapiskau (2015) – Miyoshi Feliciano
Divertimento (1980) – Leonard Bernstein
Autobiography, Part 2 (1979) – Robert Russell Bennett
October (2000) – Eric Whitacre
Shepherd’s Hey (1918) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
Liberty Loan. March (1917) – John Philip Sousa

Spring
 • Monterey Holidays (2001) – Roger Nixon
 • Scottish Dance Suite (1963) – Thea Musgrave
 • Rollo Takes a Walk (1985) – David Maslanka
 • Early Light (1999) – Carolyn Bremer
 • Gray* (2019) – Oliver Dubon, PO ’20
 • First Suite in E-flat (1909) – Gustav Holst
 • March from Tabasco (1894) – George Whitefield Chadwick
    * world premiere


2017–18 REPERTOIRE
Fall

Mondavi Fanfare (2006) – Roger Nixon
Fantasia for Euphonium and Band (1969)^ – Gordon Jacob
• Etude No. 3 for Concert Band (2010/1017) – Stephen Klein
• Galop from Genevieve de Brabant (1859) – Jacques Offenbach
Down to the Sea in Ships (1952)^^ – Robert Russell Bennett
Sheep-Shearing Song (1923/42) – Eugène Goossens/arr. Grainger
Mock Morris (1910/1950) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
Lights Out. March (1905) – Earl E. McCoy
    ^ Andrew Acs PO ’20, euphonium soloist
    ^^ Gibb “Ranzo” Schreffler, chantyman, teaches audience members sea chanties

Spring
 • Canzona Bergamasca (1621) – Samuel Scheidt
 • Four Temperaments (2001)^ – Michael Brand
 • Toccata (2017)* – Karl Kohn
 • Danish Folk Music Suite (1928) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
 • Autobiography, Part 1 (1976-77) – Robert Russell Bennett
 • The Alumni Day March (1942) – Richard N. Loucks, Jr.
    ^Stephen Klein, tuba soloist
    * world premiere


2016–17 REPERTOIRE
Fall

Prelude for an Occasion (1968/1985) – Edward Gregson
• Concerto for Clarinet and Military Band^ (1878) – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Near Woodstock Town (1903) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
Skronk (2014) – John Frantzen
• Selections from Sweeney Todd (1979) – Stephen Sondheim
• Wrong Note Rag from Wonderful Town (1953) – Leonard Bernstein
Rosalind in the Forest of Eden (2004) – Alfred Reed
A Moorside Suite (1928) – Gustav Holst
Washington Post. March^^ (1889) – John Philip Sousa
    ^Gary Bovyer, clarinet soloist
    ^^Karl Kohn, guest conductor

Spring
 • Overture for a Musical Comedy (1997) – John Barnes Chance
 • Violaria (2016)^ – Karl Kohn
 • Whispering of Fields Unsown (2016)^^ – Andrew Boysen, Jr.
 • Lyric Music (1963) – Robert Starer
 • Polonaise Americaine (2016) – John Alden Carpenter/arr. S. Klein
 • Tango Americaine (2016) – John Alden Carpenter/arr. S. Klein
 • Colonial Airs and Dances (1987) – Robert Jager
 • Children’s March: “Over the hills and far away” (1916-19) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
 • The Chirpin’ Time Rag (1977) – Gary Beeks ’72/arr. W. F. Russell
 • The Liberty Bell. March (1893) – John Philip Sousa
    ^Cynthia Fogg, viola soloist
    ^^Hayden Eberhart ’07, soprano soloist


2015–16 REPERTOIRE
Fall

Fantasia for Alto Saxophone and Band (1983) – Claude T. Smith^
English Folk Song Suite (1924) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade II for Concert Band (1977) – Karl Kohn
Meditation on the St. Wenceslaus Chorale (1914) – Joseph Suk/arr. S. Klein
Manhattan for Trumpet and Concert Band (2003) – Philip Sparke^^
• Danza Final from Estancia Dances (1941) – Alberto Ginastera
Three Fanfares for Bridges Hall (2001) – Stephen Klein
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. March (1923) – John Philip Sousa
     ^Ken Foerch, alto saxophone soloist
     ^^Christine Moore, cornet soloist

Spring
 • Blue Towers (1959) – Irving Fine
 • Diversion^ (1943) – Bernhard Heiden
 • Two Songs without Words, Op. 22 – Gustav Holst
 • “Pur ti miro” from L’incoronazione di Poppea^^(1642) – Claudio Monteverdi
 • March and Reminiscences for My Last Journey (1857–1868) – Gioachino Rossini
 • You Already Did (2015) – Mark Winges*
 • My Bonnie^^^ (1950) – Trad./arr. W.F. Russell
 • Decoration Day (1912) – Charles Ives
 • Second Connecticut Regiment. March (1876) – Wallace Reeves
    ^Chihiro Tamefusa ’16, alto saxophone soloist
    ^^Christine Moore, cornet soloist; Chihiro Tamefusa ’16, soprano saxophone soloist
    ^^^Eron Smith ’16 and Molly Cole ’16, piano four-hands
     * world premiere


2014–15 REPERTOIRE
Fall

A Huntingdon Celebration (2003) – Philip Sparke
• Tuba Concerto (2004) – Barbara York^
O Sacred Head (1994) – J.S. Bach/Vaclav Nelhybel
Connaught Rhapsody (2014) – David Holsinger
Monteverdi Suite (2014) – Claudio Monteverdi/S. Klein
Fantasy on American Sailing Songs (1952) – Clare Grundman
Ritmo Jondo (1967) – Carlos Surinach
The Gliding Girl (1912) – John Philip Sousa
Godfrey Kneller March (1976) – Gordon Jacob
     ^Stephen Klein, tuba soloist

Spring
 • Scaramouche (2002) – W. Francis McBeth
 • Suite Française (1945) – Darius Milhaud
 • Intermezzo for Concert Band (2014) – Karl Kohn
 • The Gum-Suckers. March (1914/1942) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
 • When Time was Young ^ (2005/2015) – Tom Flaherty
 • Orpheus in the Underworld. Overture (1858) – Jacques Offenbach
 • The Stars and Stripes Forever. March (1896) – John Philip Sousa
    ^Lucy Shelton’65, soprano soloist


2013–14 REPERTOIRE
Fall

Havener Fanfare (2004) – Andrew Boysen, Jr.
• Folk Song Suite No. II (1985) – Frigyes Hidas
musical offering (1963/1994 – Vaclav Nelhybel
• Variations on America (1891) – Charles Ives
The Alcotts from Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord, Mass., 1940-1860 (1909-15) – Charles Ives
• March from Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943) – Paul Hindemith
Soirées Musicales (1936) – Benjamin Britten
Stone Images (1974) – Sydney Hodkinson
• Overture to Candide (1955) – Leonard Bernstein
• Circus Galop from The Irish Dragoon (1914-15) – John Philip Sousa

Spring
 • Giles Farnaby Suite (1969) – Gordon Jacob
 • Sketches on a Tudor Psalm (1973) – Fisher Tull
 • Children’s March: “Over the hills and far away” (1916-1919) – Percy Aldridge Grainger
 • Serenade, Op. 22c (1965/1980) – Derek Bourgeois
 • Second Suite in F for Military Band, Op.28 No.2 (1911, rev. 1913) – Gustav Holst
 • Colonel Bogey. March (1913) – Kenneth J. Alford


2012-13 REPERTOIRE
Spring

 • Prelude for Hampstead Heath (1989) – Martin Ellerby
 • Broadside for Band (1988) – William Bolcom
 • Crystals (1985) – Thomas C. Duffy
 • Lincolnshire Posy (1937) – Percy Grainger
 • On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989) – David Holsinger
 • Festive Overture, Op. 96 – Dmitri Shostakovich
 • The New Colonial March (1901) – Robert Browne Hall


Additional seasons forthcoming.